Ory Dessau (°1979, Tel Aviv) is an independent curator and writer based in Ghent. He has collaborated with museums such as the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, S.M.A.K., Ghent, and Moderna Museet Malmö. His 2018 exhibition, Fundamentalist Cubes, deals with the notion of the personified space in the work of Bruce Nauman, Absalon, and Gregor Schneider. Dessau’s texts are regularly published in different art magazines such as Art Review, Flash Art, Mousse Magazine, and Metropolis M. He is the editor of several monographs, for example, “Stanislaw Fijalkowski: Before and after Abstraction” (Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne, 2016).
List of Exhibitions:
2021
Facing the Crowd: On and Around Lecture Performance, West Den Haag, The Hague
Artists: Ed Atkins, Joseph Beuys, Andrea Fraser, Karen Finley, Dan Graham, Hanne Lippard, Paul McCarthy, Agnieszka Polska, Jesper List Thomsen, Jordan Wolfson
2020
An Unfinished Project, Galerija Vartai, Vilnius
Artists: Willem Boel, Konstantinas Bogdanas, Andreas Golinski, Yael Hersonski, Ariel Schlesinger, Peter Wӓchtler
Short Memory, Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp
Artists: Lili Dujourie, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Douglas Gordon, On Kawara, Richard Prince
2018
Fundamentalist Cubes – Inside Spaces by Bruce Nauman, Absalon, and Gregor Schneider, Fondation M-ARCO, Marseille (cat.)
Kobro and Strzemiński: New Art in Turbulent Times, Moderna Museet Malmö (co-curated with Iris Müller-Westermann and Jaroslaw Suchan) (cat.)
2017
Inside the Distance, Galerie Sabine Knust, Munich
Artists: Ronald de Bloeme, Lothar Hempel, Gregor Hildebrandt, Olaf Holzapfel, Sebastian Preece, Adam Rabinowitz
Free of Immediacy, Grundemark-Nilsson Gallery, Berlin
Artists: Matan Mittwoch, Royden Rabinowitch
2016
Zvi Goldstein – Distance and Differences, S.M.A.K. Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent
2015
Olaf Brzeski – Anteroom, Polnisches Institut, Berlin
Markus Döbeli, 3Paintings, Galerie Isabella Czarnowska, Berlin
2014
Moshe Gershuni– No Father No Mother, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin (co-curated with Udo Kittelmann) (cat.)
The Cable Guys, Future Gallery, Berlin (cat.)
Artists: Alice Channer, Spiros Hadjidjanos, Seth Price, Paul Sharits
2012
Andreas Golinski – Scars on the Rocks, Hezi Cohen Gallery, Tel-Aviv
Pension – Gregor Schneider and Nahum Tevet, Hezi Cohen Gallery, Tel-Aviv
Adding to Subtract, Contemporary by Golconda Gallery, Tel-Aviv
Artists: Francis Alÿs, Benni Efrat, Lothar Hempel, Doron Golan
2011
The Second Strike, 3rd Herzliya Biennial for Contemporary Art, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art (cat.)
Artists: Miroslaw Balka, Avner Ben-Gal, Christoph Büchel, Peter Buggenhout, Nina Canell, Keren Cytter, Brice Dellsperger, Gideon Gechtman, Zvi Goldstein, Fabrice Gygi, Michal Helfman, Lothar Hempel, Martin Kippenberger, Friedrich Kunath, Robert Kusmirowski, Ruth Nemet, Adam Rabinowitz, Gilad Ratman, Anri Sala, Wilhelm Sasnal, Gregor Schneider, Gil Marco Shani, Haim Steinbach, Nahum Tevet, Jan Tichy, Yanai Toister, Peter Wächtler, Pavel Wolberg, Jordan Wolfson, Thomas Zipp
2010
Pleated Blinds, Petach Tikva Museum of Art (cat.)
Artists: Stan Brakhage, Wolfgang Tillmans, Thomas Demand, Thomas Ruff, Moshe Ninio, Walead Beshty, Shannon Ebner, Allora & Calzadilla, Aim Deuelle Luski, Yanai Toister, Efrat Shalem
2009
Gregor Schneider – Sculptures, Photographs, and videos, Herzliya Museum for Contemporary Art (cat.)
Gregor Schneider – Accadia Beach, 21 Beach-Cells, Herzliya
2008
Penal Colony, Ein-Harod Museum of Art
Artists: Avner Ben-Gal, Christoph Büchel, Fabrice Gygi, Michal Helfman, Tal R., Adam Rabinowitz
2006
Adam Rabinowitz –Tardemon, Helena Rubinstein Pavilion, Tel-Aviv Museum of Art (cat.)
Eli Petel –Original Nature, Helena Rubinstein Pavilion, Tel-Aviv Museum of Art (cat.)
2005
Hazeret, Givon Art Gallery, Tel-Aviv
Artists: Avner Ben-Gal, Yolande Fièvre, Moshe Gershuni, Rafi Lavie, Moshe Ninio, Adam Rabinowitz, Eli Petel and paparazzi photographer Daniel Cohen
2003
Guess Who Died, Dvir Gallery, Tel-Aviv
Artists: Avner Ben-Gal, Tamar Getter, Michal Na’aman, Ruth Nemet, Adam Rabinowitz, Eli Petel, Pavel Wolberg. The exhibition also included excerpts from Israeli films by Uri Zohar, Assi Dayan and Ephraim Kishon